Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the legendary boxer who spent 19 years in prison on murder charges that were later dismissed, died of prostate cancer in his home this morning. He was 76.

Carter
was a star boxer during his career, and fought Joey Giardello for the
world middleweight title in 1964. In 2004, 19 years after his release
from Trenton State Prison in New Jersey, he founded Innocence
International, a non-profit that works to overturn potentially wrongful
convictions.

"The
system does not like people who say they're innocent in prison, but
there has to be a way for innocence to survive in prison. Prison is the
lowest level of human existence (you) can exist on without being dead . .
. Being able to overcome that, that's the miraculous nature of every
human being. It is great, absolutely fantastic."

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